Making Refuge - Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Besteman Klappentext Catherine Besteman is Francis F. and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and the author of Transforming Cape Town and Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery.¿ Zusammenfassung In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades! from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps! to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston! Maine. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Terms and Abbreviations  ix Timeline of Events  xi Acknowledgments  xv Introduction  1 Part I. Refugees 1. Becoming Refugees  35 2. The Humanitarian Condition  57 3. Becoming Somali Bantus  77 Part II. Lewiston Introduction  103 4. We Have Responded Valiantly  115 5. Strangers in Our Midst  139 6. Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands  169 Part III. Refuge Introduction  205 7. Making Refuge  215 8. These Are Our Kids  243 Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be  277 Notes  291 References  313 Index  327

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Besteman, Catherine Lowe Besteman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780822360278
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6027-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Global Insecurities; Global Insecurities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories